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Our curator for this coming week is Dr Mel Thomson of the Molecular Medicine Research Facility at Deakin University School of Medicine, Geelong (about 100km south-west of Melbourne, Australia). Mel is a microbiologist, researching...
“Nine year old me would have loved to become a scientist, except I didn’t know what that meant. I had never met a scientist. I thought science was done elsewhere, by people who looked...
‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics’, 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli was supposed to have once said. However, since that line was likely made up by Mark Twain,...
We bid a fond farewell to charismatic crystallographer Dr David Briggs, tweeting live from the University of Manchester in this International Year of Crystallography. Coincidentally, this was also the week of a famous and...
This week we are pleased to welcome Dr David Briggs to the @realscientists steering wheel. David is a Post Doctoral Researcher at the University of Manchester, UK, and answered our welcome-exam questions with style....
And so the time has come to farewell our curator for the past week, Dr. Santiago de la Peña of the Byrd Polar Research Center in Columbus, Ohio. Over the last week, Santiago has taken...
This week we’re leaving the Australasia region completely and heading over to the United States of America, with a layover in Greenland! Dr Santiago de la Peña is a research scientist from the Byrd...
In the frontline against poaching of endangered species and illegal trade of animals are a bunch of scientists at the Australia Museum. This is the story of one of their scientists. We’ve been...
